Genesis 31:7
Good News Translation
Yet he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not let him harm me.

New Revised Standard Version
yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not permit him to harm me.

Contemporary English Version
and that he keeps cheating me by changing my wages time after time. But God has protected me.

New American Bible
yet your father cheated me and changed my wages ten times. God, however, did not let him do me any harm.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.

ten times.

Genesis 31:41 And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.

.

Leviticus 26:26 After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled,

Numbers 14:22 But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

Nehemiah 4:12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews that dwelt by them came and told us ten times, out of all the places from whence they came to us,

Job 19:8 He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.

Isaiah 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.

Zechariah 8:23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: In those days, wherein ten men of all languages of the Gentiles shall take hold, and shall hold fast the skirt of one that is a Jew, saying: We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

God.

Genesis 31:29 It is in my power to return thee evil; but the God of your father said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

Genesis 20:6 And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I suffered thee not to touch her.

Job 1:10 Hast thou not made a fence for him, and his house, and all his substance round about, blessed the works of his hands, and his possession hath increased on the earth?

Psalm 37:28 For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 105:14,15 He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes. . . .

Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every tongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justice with me, saith the Lord.

Context
Jacob Flees from Laban
6And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power. 7Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.8If at any time, he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white one for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones.…
Cross References
Genesis 15:1
Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.

Genesis 29:25
And he said to his father-in-law: What is it that thou didst mean to do? did not I serve thee for Rachel? why hast thou deceived me?

Genesis 30:28
Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.

Genesis 31:24
And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

Genesis 31:29
It is in my power to return thee evil; but the God of your father said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

Genesis 31:41
And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.

Daniel 1:20
And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the diviners, and wise men, that were in all his kingdom.

Genesis 31:6
Top of Page
Top of Page